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The Origins of Monsters
It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from …
The Art of Biography in Antiquity
Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hägg explores the whole range and diversity of …
Worter aus Xurasan und ihre Herkunft
This book contains etymological studies of the Iranian vocabulary of Khurasan. The words treated are gleaned from Ibrahim Shakurzade's book on the beliefs and customs of the …
Plato''s dialogues
Entitled "The Republic", this book is represented by Plato as one of the main works in political thought. The book displays a model for the ideal state and the virtuous city that …
Escape from Rome
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in …
The World of The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms
In the early 12th century, the Late Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed during a series of upheavals which swept the Greek and Near Eastern worlds. In the subsequent Iron Age, …
Republic of Pirates
For fans of The Lost Kingdom, Black Sails and Crossbones comes a new rip-roaring history of the Golden Age of Piracy. . .In the early eighteenth century a number of the great …
The Greatest Story Ever Told
** THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **** NOW WITH A DAZZLING NEW COVER **Readers love The Greatest Story Ever Told 'Outstanding. A page-turner with a life-changing message.' ????? …
Demosthenes
The tragic story of ancient Greece’s last democratic leader and his doomed fight to save Athens from Macedonian domination In the spring of 340 BCE, news arrived that Philip of …
Bronze Age War Chariots
Chariots, the first mobile fighting vehicle, seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. The highly mobile two-wheeled war chariot, carrying a driver and an …
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these …
